The Sydney Morning Herald Logo — The Sydney Morning Herald ( SMH ) is a newspaper based in the city of Sydney owned by Fairfax Media Limited. Each week sold about 150,000 copies of the newspaper, one of the most important newspapers in Australia .
In 2006 was the second best-selling newspaper in Australia , behind only the Australian edition of The Daily Telegraph . Prominent for national reporting, international views on political issues, music, film and fashion, among others. Your editor is Alan Oakley.Three employees of the now defunct Sydney Gazette — Alfred Stephens, Frederick Stokes and William McGarvie — founded The Sydney Herald in 1831 as a weekly newspaper. In 1840 the newspaper began daily publication.